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Kenta TOMIHARA (富原 健太)
JSPS research fellow (PD)
Neuro-network Evolution Project, Neuro-ICT Laboratory, Advanced ICT Research Institute, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
E-mail: kentatomihara [at] gmail.com
E-mail (Institutional): tomihara [at] nict.go.jp
Research interest: Genetics, Evolution, Insect science, Domestication, Pigmentation, Behaviour
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Feb. 23, 2024: Our new preprint is in bioRxiv: A chromosome-level genome assembly of Drosophila madeirensis, a fruit fly species endemic to the island of Madeira
Nov. 27, 2023: Our paper is now in FEBS Letters: Expression of the Wolbachia male-killing factor Oscar impairs dosage compensation in lepidopteran embryos
Jun. 23, 2023: Our paper is now in Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology: Disruption of a BTB-ZF transcription factor causes female sterility and melanization in the larval body of the silkworm, Bombyx mori
Apr. 03, 2023: Our new preprint is in bioRxiv: Disruption of a BTB-ZF transcription factor causes female sterility and melanization in the larval body of the silkworm, Bombyx mori
Apr. 01, 2023: I become a PostDoc at Neuro-network Evolution Project, Neuro-ICT Laboratory, Advanced ICT Research Institute, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology.
Mar. 31, 2023: I have graduated the University of Tokyo.
Mar. 15, 2023: Our paper is now in Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology: Recessive embryonic lethal mutations uncovered in heterozygous condition in silkworm semiconsomic strains
Dec. 23, 2022: Our new preprint is now in bioRxiv: Deleterious mutations in a heterozygous chromosome result in recessive lethality in silkworm semiconsomic strains
Sept. 07, 2022: Our papaer is now in Biology Letters: Masculinizer-induced dosage compensation is achieved by transcriptional downregulation of both copies of Z-linked genes in the silkworm, Bombyx mori
I and my supervisor wrote a review article (in Japanese): カイコ突然変異体を利用して昆虫の色を理解する −体色形成にかかわるトランスポーターの同定−
Jun. 25, 2022: Our paper is now in Insect Molecular Biology: Allele-specific knockouts reveal a role for apontic-like in the evolutionary loss of larval pigmentation in the domesticated silkworm, Bombyx mori
May. 21, 2022: Our paper is now in Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications: Transcriptome analysis in the silkworm Bombyx mori overexpressing piRNA-resistant Masculinizer gene
May. 13, 2022: Our new preprint entittled "Transcriptome analysis in the silkworm Bombyx mori overexpressing piRNA-resistant Masculinizer gene" was published.
May. 08, 2022: Our new preprint entittled "Allele-specific knockouts reveal a role for apontic-like in the evolutionary loss of larval pigmentation in the domesticated silkworm, Bombyx mori" was published.